My Two Paragraph Reflection After reading the peer evaluations, not only have I found out that these evaluations sincerely help me, but these evaluations also made me want to do my speech all over again so I could go back and fix some weaknesses that I have portrayed during the speech presentations. Also, I was able to know what my strengths are when giving out persuasive speeches. I've done many presentations before but I haven't done a formal "persuasive oratory," which made me nervous. However, to talk about my strengths that my peers pointed out and those that I think are powerful enough, I believe I showed great eye contacts along with natural body, hand gestures. Personally, I always felt that I move too much while giving speeches but ironically nobody pointed out that I had too much movement during my speech. Some peers also pointed out that I demonstrated great emphasis in many parts of my speech making it a little bit loose and to make sure the audiences have some fun listening to my speech. Adding on, some peers liked the way I encouraged the audiences to participate and I believe this was the most powerful part of my speech and was my actual intention because persuading means to get someone on your side, which is probably the hardest thing to do when having negotiations. I was worried because I wasn't able to memorize some parts of the speech (I know we weren't required too, but still great eye contact doesn't hurt anyone) and I thought someone would point out that I shouldn't have looked at my paper too much, however, nobody seemed to really concern about that one. I was also happy how most of the people were able to point out my main points along with some of the rhetorical devices I used during my speech.
Now to point out my weaknesses of my speech presentation, I've expected some of these comments from my peers. Not only was I a little bit nervous, this applies to everyone, once you get very nervous you tend to speed up during the speech. I think I was in a rush in some parts of my speech and it might have, I believe, confused some people to actually understand what I was trying to tell the audiences. But this was also because I knew that my speech was very lengthy. A peer caught me on this and she pointed out that controlling the length of my speech could have slowed me down a little bit and could have been easier for the audiences to understand the big amount of information in my speech. Some also pointed out that I should have used more factual and outside research rather than just persuading based on personal experiences and I totally agree with this. Personal experiences only applies to myself and a few others but not 'everyone.' Adding on, some peers pointed out that I should have been more aggressive when presenting my speech. Maybe I was a bit too friendly and this I think could have made my speech look not as formal as it should really look like. There are always a balance between weaknesses and strengths in speech presentations and next time, I'll consider what I have learned from myself and from my peers. I will conclude by making a promise and goal to myself to make sure I won't make the same mistakes again.
"Should Schools Limit APs Per Student? Yes."
Ji Yoon Hyun's Evaluation Page
Post Evaluations Next to Your Name
Sejin Paik:
Jungna Nana Park:Nana Park was absent on the day.
Jin Kwon:
Cindy Choi:
Livvy Edwards:
Nathan Cho:
Alena Koo:
Priscilla Kim: PE of S [jiyoon].pages
Alice Ahn:
Yunjin Kim:
Sarah Cho:
Jason Kim:
Daeun Lee:
Lauren Kang:
Kristie Lee:
Sang Heon Cha:
Amy Choi:
My Two Paragraph Reflection
After reading the peer evaluations, not only have I found out that these evaluations sincerely help me, but these evaluations also made me want to do my speech all over again so I could go back and fix some weaknesses that I have portrayed during the speech presentations. Also, I was able to know what my strengths are when giving out persuasive speeches. I've done many presentations before but I haven't done a formal "persuasive oratory," which made me nervous. However, to talk about my strengths that my peers pointed out and those that I think are powerful enough, I believe I showed great eye contacts along with natural body, hand gestures. Personally, I always felt that I move too much while giving speeches but ironically nobody pointed out that I had too much movement during my speech. Some peers also pointed out that I demonstrated great emphasis in many parts of my speech making it a little bit loose and to make sure the audiences have some fun listening to my speech. Adding on, some peers liked the way I encouraged the audiences to participate and I believe this was the most powerful part of my speech and was my actual intention because persuading means to get someone on your side, which is probably the hardest thing to do when having negotiations. I was worried because I wasn't able to memorize some parts of the speech (I know we weren't required too, but still great eye contact doesn't hurt anyone) and I thought someone would point out that I shouldn't have looked at my paper too much, however, nobody seemed to really concern about that one. I was also happy how most of the people were able to point out my main points along with some of the rhetorical devices I used during my speech.
Now to point out my weaknesses of my speech presentation, I've expected some of these comments from my peers. Not only was I a little bit nervous, this applies to everyone, once you get very nervous you tend to speed up during the speech. I think I was in a rush in some parts of my speech and it might have, I believe, confused some people to actually understand what I was trying to tell the audiences. But this was also because I knew that my speech was very lengthy. A peer caught me on this and she pointed out that controlling the length of my speech could have slowed me down a little bit and could have been easier for the audiences to understand the big amount of information in my speech. Some also pointed out that I should have used more factual and outside research rather than just persuading based on personal experiences and I totally agree with this. Personal experiences only applies to myself and a few others but not 'everyone.' Adding on, some peers pointed out that I should have been more aggressive when presenting my speech. Maybe I was a bit too friendly and this I think could have made my speech look not as formal as it should really look like. There are always a balance between weaknesses and strengths in speech presentations and next time, I'll consider what I have learned from myself and from my peers. I will conclude by making a promise and goal to myself to make sure I won't make the same mistakes again.